Railway-tie



(No Model.)

C. M. VAN ORMAN.

RAILWAY TIE.

No. 314,158. Patented Mar. 17, 1885.

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' saddles on each tie, attached by means of T UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLAYTON MARIE VAN ORMAN, OF SHERVOOD, MICIGAN.

RAILWAY-TIE.

SPECFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,158, dated March 17, 1885.

l Application tiled June 20, 1984. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLAYTON M. VANGE- MAN, of Sherwood, in the county of Branch and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railway-Ties, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention pertains to improvements in railway-ties; and it consists ot' the combination of parts and their construction, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar' letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a tie of my improved construction with a rail attached, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

A is the tie, the same being formed of sheet metal of suitable thickness and rolled into the semicylindrical or curved forni shown. B is the saddle, formed of cast metal, preferably, and made with its under surface concave to set closely upon the tie. There are two ofthe form or dovetail lugs a, that extend through holes cut in the crown ofthe tie. The met-al is slit and bent down to form the holes, so that lips or lianges b are left that, taking into notches of the lugs a on two sides, hold the saddles securely down in place, said lips or i in opposite direction and extending through the tie, so that tendency of the saddle to rise and the rails to rock is resisted by the clamping action of the spikes. Ordinary railroadspikes are used. 'The saddle and tie thus connected are practically one, and there being no bolts or pins cannot be disconnected by ordinary use. The tie is selttamping, because, as it settles by weight put on it, it gathers and compacts the dirt instead ot' spreading it, as.`

the ordinary tie does. The sides of the tie being rounding the ballast takes good hold upon it.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- The combination of saddles B, formed with T-lugs a, and the sheet-metal ties A, having holes with flanges or lips b at their edges for" locking the lugs, substantially as described.

CLAYTON MARIE VAN ORllIAN. `Vit-nesses:

DAVID MCCARTY, i MANTON E. SWAIN. 

